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• charcoal burner
  charcoal burner

  noun

  a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.
• charcoal-burner
  charcoal-burner

  noun

  (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning wood

charcoal burner

American  

noun

1. a device that burns charcoal, as a stove or brazier.

2. a person employed in the manufacture of charcoal.

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charcoal-burner British  

noun

1. (formerly) a person whose work was making charcoal by burning wood

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Etymology

Origin of charcoal burner

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

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This is to say that you can make great brisket in a common backyard charcoal burner.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2019

Harry lit a charcoal burner and took it to the bedroom.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2017

Festivalgoers can finish off their meals with a soothing Habesha coffee ceremony, in which beans are hand-washed and roasted over a charcoal burner before being served in traditional clay cups.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2016

The traditional charcoal burner is thus a poster boy for the human cost of industrialism.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2015

A little old man with a baby carriage made into a pushcart with a charcoal burner, and the smell of roasting chestnuts, and snow on the ground.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

The comparatively small forest-areas are, in many parts, as previously stated, being rapidly reduced by the hatchet of the charcoal-burner.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.

It had suffered comparatively little from the axe of the charcoal-burner, and many birds, not elsewhere seen,- 18 - were met with here.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

The charcoal-burner put his gnarled, knotted, and now trembling hand into the Stranger's palm.

From A Second Coming by Marsh, Richard

He turned to the lame man and to the charcoal-burner.

From A Second Coming by Marsh, Richard

Once on a time there was a charcoal-burner, who had a son, who was a charcoal-burner too.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.